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| Email: | jaapdevries@casema.nl |
| NickName: | Jaap |
| City: | breda |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Sex: | Male |
| Date Of Birth: | 1959-11-15 |
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| Description: | Art, I believe, enables me to create the space that allows those desires to come alive that in the world around me are subordinate or hidden. I like to experiment with different materials: paint, ink, rubber, photo/paper, purfoam, aluminium etc. I have developed my own techniques, which involves working on paper and aluminium, with acrylics, cutting up shapes, and subsequently 'sticking' them back on the base with paint... I use watercolours to create imperfect portraits, in which the mutilation is a metaphor for genuine experience. Like dikes, the contour lines divide the tight water surface, and when a dike collapse, and the water has evaporated, a totally unexpected paint spot will form. To me, the use of aluminium also refers to stained glass, with clear and bright colors. The watercolour shows that it is the paint itself that makes the wounds; the blood-flowing paint apparently has the capacity to do the same as real cutting. A face evidently still has the power to speak and to torment us with the question what experience it is hiding from us, and apparently the paint itself (and not the representation) is enough to convey this power. Unlike the moving images of a film, art (painting) allows us to experience the unreal as unreal and thereby creates an intimacy and rapport with our desires, in an atmosphere that allows us to become conscious of ourselves and our desires! my website: www.jaapdevries.eu |
| Headline: | Ever since my graduation in 1983, my work has centered on juxtaposing a world controlled by prohibitions and another, more sacral world: the world of play. |
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